Currently, Modin depends on pandas version 0.23.4. The API of pandas has a
tendency to change some with each release, so we pin our current version to the
most recent version to take advantage of the newest additions. This also
typically means better performance and more correct code.

Modin also depends on Ray. Ray is a task-parallel execution framework for
parallelizing new and existing applications with minor code changes. Currently,
we depend on the most recent Ray release: 0.5.3.

If you’re planning on contributing to Modin, you will need to ensure that you are
building Modin from the local repository that you are working off of. Occassionally,
there are issues in overlapping Modin installs from pypi and from source. To avoid these
issues, we recommend uninstalling Modin before you install from source: